First Post – Setting Up GitHub Pages

2017, Nov 03

I’ve finally come around to getting this going with motivation from CJ. It’s pretty cool how smoothly the setup process can be (though there’s always a few hiccups as with anything). Nowadays much of the back-end stuff is taken care of as a black-box. Even though I didn’t have others help, I wouldn’t consider this “building” my own website. This blog post is just a markdown file that will get converted to HTML by kramdown/Jekyll. Not going into any details here, as others have already said enough.

I found this theme through a quick google search and stuck with it for the minimalist design.

Here’s the catch… earlier this year, I had tried to get GitHub Pages running with the built-in version of ruby on macOS. Bad idea. I must have ran sudo gem install jekyll bundle so running jekyll serve works fine on my machine, but gem install was not behaving correctly without root permissions.